First published 1669. Text pages as in that ed., with new t.p. printed red & black. Second state, with dedication to the painter Peter Lely cancelling that to Sir William Ducie. New to this ed. is "An appendix to the art of painting in miniture [sic] or limning ... never published before, by Alexander Browne." It has a special t.p. and is separately paged but continuously signed

"Ars pictoria" section in part a reworking of Browne's The whole art of drawing, painting, limning, and etching ... originally invented and written by the famous Italian painter Odoardo Fialetti (London, 1660)

Frontispiece port. of Browne engraved by Arnold de Jode after a painting by Jacob Huysmans. All but 2 plates signed by de Jode as engraver. Eighteen were engraved in reverse after ill. in Abraham Bloemaert's Oorspronkelyk en vermaard konstryk tekenboek. Designers of the other plates are given as: E. Fiolet (Odoardo Fialetti), A. Carats (Agostino Carracci), L. Carats (Lodovico Carracci), I. Collenbina (Gasparo Colombina), I. Palma (Palma il Giovane? [Iacopo Palma]), F. Parmesan (Parmigianino [Francesco Mazzuoli]), and G.R

Folded leaf following P2 is printed on recto with etched head-piece and letterpress advertisement entitled "A catalogue of plates ... sold by Arthur Tooker."

Signatures: pi² 2pi² A-2E² chi² 2F-2P² 2chi1

Errata for Ars pictoria, p. [8] of preliminaries. Errata for Appendix, p. 39

Wing (2nd ed.)

Binding: early mottled calfskin. Traces of gilding on spine, label missing from 2nd compartment

On verso of front flyleaf is 19th-century armorial bookplate of a Duke of Leeds

[8], 110, [6], 39, [1] p., [2], 30, [1] leaves of plates : 31 cm. (fol.)

First published 1669. Text pages as in that ed., with new t.p. printed red & black

"An appendix to the art of painting in miniture or limning:" has separate dated title page, on leaf chi1r, and pagination; register otherwise continuous

Library's copy is second state, with dedication to the painter Peter Lely cancelling that to Sir William Ducie

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